Be Part of REWAS 2019

Plan now to participate in the 6th installment of this unique, transdisciplinary conference series, co-located with the TMS 2019 Annual Meeting & Exhibition (TMS2019). Don’t miss the opportunity to showcase your research and advance progress at the intersection of materials science, metallurgy, and sustainability.

Featuring the International Round Table on Materials Criticality

This year, the REWAS 2019 symposium will host the International Round Table on Materials Criticality (IRTC), one of a series of events being held at established international conferences around the world. The goal of the roundtable is to gather input that will ultimately result in a Roadmap on Criticality, providing advice for authorities and policy makers world-wide. The topic will be “How Does Industry Manage Criticality in Product Development?”

Planned REWAS 2019 Symposia

The landscape of material manufacturing has the potential for dramatic change as new design techniques (e.g. material genome) and new technologies (e.g. additive manufacturing, clean energy technologies) begin to scale to industrial production levels.

Attention has turned to ore alternative sources of important materials, metals, and minerals. Circular economy techniques, industrial symbiosis, and urban mining are sustainability strategies for obtaining these materials from industrial byproducts, end of life wastes such as electronics and batteries, and other secondary sources.

This topic will explore approaches to decreasing emissions and effluents in production, achieving sustainable process design, and manufacturing clean energy technologies. Measuring and quantifying embodied energy and assessment of current methods as well as enabling cost-effective and efficient collection and reprocessing of wastes will also be discussed.

Transitioning knowledge from the research and academic sectors into applied work is critical to realizing sustainability. This topic solicits work in novel educational approaches like blended learning, flipped classrooms, and MOOCs, as well as approaches for integrating sustainability into traditional disciplinary curricula. Technology transition, applied learning, workforce development initiatives, innovation, and entrepreneurship will also be highlighted.